Now don't get me wrong. There's alot of things to love about Dark Souls. So many things to love in fact. The world building and lore is amazing, the game is beautiful, even as an older game. I even think combat is really well designed and well balanced. Unfortunately, Dark Souls really never clicked for me, and I think that applies to alot of people. After a certain point, going back to back into the same area and dying over and over again became incredibly boring, and the will I had to finish the game just dissapated. I even got pretty far, Anor Londo, but just lost interest. I stopped playing Dark Souls because it stopped becoming rewarding to put in the effort and overcome the challenges it put in front of me. Maybe that says something about me, but as I understand, I'm not the only person who's had this experience. I was conflicted on whether or not this was the games fault, or my fault, and eventually came to the conclusion that it's not really either of us at fault. Dark Souls is a 10/10 game for a very specific audience, those who get alot of gratification from putting in alot of time and overcoming a great challenge. I'm just not one of those people. I'm willing to try again in the future, but for now, I'm walking away from this game towards the rest of my backlog.